The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.


David Eddings

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I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
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Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
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When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
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Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
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I gave up my whole life to my career.
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Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
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There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
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It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
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It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY
Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
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I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
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Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
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Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
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It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
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Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
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I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
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Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
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My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
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The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
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I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
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Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
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I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
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You cannot make a teenage idol.
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It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
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Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
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I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
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I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
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I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
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I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
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I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY
We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
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All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
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Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
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My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
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Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
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My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
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